Black Bean Quinoa Corn Cakes

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Black beans, quinoa and corn combine great taste and texture in these delicious vegetarian cakes.
These cakes are a great meal to serve on those meatless Monday’s! They are full of flavour and texture and taste fantastic. They are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Mozzarella cheese helps hold them together and adds some extra special gooeyness to the cakes.

I love using quinoa for meals I make on meatless Monday. Quinoa is a complete protein so it’s great to use in vegetarian meals. Black beans are another fantastic food that is high in protein as well as iron. And let’s not forget that black beans are also high in fibre. These cakes use both black beans and quinoa, can’t go wrong with that combination. 🙂 Each cake has about 6 grams of protein and only 1.5 grams of fat and just over 100 calories! Yum!!

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well.

Heat about 1 teaspoon of oil in a large non stick skillet over medium heat. Once hot, scoop 1/4 cup of mixture and drop into pan. Flatten with back of a spoon to form a pancake.

Cook 5-8 minutes per side. These cakes are delicate so be careful when flipping over. I found that if you let it cook a bit longer, closer to the 8 minutes on the first side, that I had an easier time flipping them. They held together better and I could flip them like a pancake. Make sure you add a bit of oil before cooking the next batch of cakes.

Heat about 1 teaspoon of oil in a large non stick skillet over medium heat. Once hot, scoop 1/4 cup of mixture and drop into pan. Flatten with back of a spoon to form a pancake. Cook 5-8 minutes per side. These cakes are delicate so be careful when flipping over. I found that if you let it cook a bit longer, closer to the 8 minutes on the first side, that I had an easier time flipping them. They held together better and I could flip them like a pancake.

Serve warm with toppings of your choice.

Notes

Another way to flip these cakes is to use two spatulas; one under neither and one on top, to make flipping them easier